Combination-bracket for window shades and curtains.



PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.

OLJ. McDONALD.. I COMBINATION BRACKET FOR WINDOW SHADES AND CURTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 20, 1907.

Qivihwooao z 4 I J44)? CHESTER J. MCDONALD, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

COMBINATION-BRACKET FOR WINDOW SHADES AND CURTAINS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1908.

Application filed December 20, 1907. SerialNo. 407,425.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER J. MoDoN- ALD, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State ofNebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCombination-Brackets for Window Shades and Curtains, 'of which thefollowing is a specifi-' cation. v

This invention has for its principal object the provision of brackets,used in airs, for

the combined support of shade ro lers and .curtain rods upon windowcasings, sald brackets being so formed that they may be reliable inoperation, and may be more economically manufactured than heretoforepresented.

Another object is the provisionof brackets of this class which may besecured to a window frame without use of screws, and may be quicklyadjusted or placed in operative position, and the invention hasreference to the manner of forming the bracket.

The novel features of construction and arrangement of parts are fullydescribed herein, pointed out by the claims and illustrated in thedrawing, wherein,-

Figure 1 is a front view of part of a window frame with my invention 0eratively secured thereon, in connection wit a window shade and curtainrod. Fig. 2 is a vertical, side view of the newly invented bracketoperatively secured to a window frame, the latter being broken away andpartly in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detai relating to Figs. 1 and2. 4

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, numeral1 indicates the front panel of a'window frame, 2 and 3 indicating,respectively, a shade roller and av curtain rod, supported upon brackets4, said brackets being secured upon the window frame. The two bracketsare substantially alike in form and may be constructed of cast metal,but are referably bent or formed from wire stran s, and each bracketcomrises the engaginghead 5, bent transversely from the neck 6 andprovided'near its terminal with side facets 7 disposed convergent towardterminal 8, and terminal 8 preferably has a sharpened point so that itmay be driven into the window casin and head 5 is provided with thehammeracet 9 with a surface substantially at right angleswith theelongated head, tofacilitate the driving of this head, as by use of ahammer, into the window frame.

The bracket may be conveniently and very economically bent upon a wireworking machine, all of its parts after being com-' pleted, disposedupona single plane. The strand is continued downwardly from neck 6 toform the sustaining-arm 10, this arm being curved or bowed outwardly atits middle so that'it will not contact with and thereby deface thewindow casing, during adjustment, and to form the contact-portion 11,and is then bent outwardly to form the shade-supporting arm 12, and isthen bent downward as at 13 to form a part of the shade-bearing loo 14,and continued, as at 21, upwardly an substantially parallel with portion13 to complete the shade-bearing loop; the strand is then bent outwardlyand continued sub-.

stantially arallel with arm 12, to form a curtain-p0 e supporting arm15, and is then bent upwardly, as at 16, to form the terminal prong 17for engagement with the'curtain or drapery-pole.

' As thus described the device may be constructed at slight expense, andwhen secured in operative position upon the window frame, the weight ofthe drapery, shade and roller is supported upon heads 5 of the brackets,as is apparent, and no other parts make contact with the frame exceptportions 11; and loops 14 are adapted to contain the projecting ends 18,whether round, square or oblong, of a shade roller. In order that heads5 will reliably remain in the wood work after being driven, transversecontact-edges or ridges 19 are formed upon the sides thereof.

The brackets are secured very readily and conveniently by driving heads5 into the window casing, facets 9 being especially useful to facilitatethis operation. The brackets are spaced so that projections 18 of theshade-roller will rest in loops 14; a dra erypole of the telescoping kinmay be us advantage and may be adju ted and e upon prongs 17, since theprongs traverse openings 20 thereof.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is g i e 1. A device for the purposedescribed, comprisin a metal strand haying one of its terminals formedas a driving-head, and having a body-portion continued transverselyandidownwardly from the driving-head to form a sustaining-arm, the lowersaid. sustaining arm being adapted to bear against a window frame tobrace the structure and bent outwardly at substantially a right angle toform a shade-supporting arm, and from thence bent downward and thenceupward to form a shade-bearing loop, said strand being continued outwardfrom the shade-bearing loop substantially parallel with saidshade-supporting arm to form a curtain-supporting arm, and bent upwardlyfrom the curtain-supporting arm to form a curtain-pole-bearing prong;said drivinghead, sustaining-arm, shade-supporting arm, curtain-polesupporting arm and curtainpole-bearing prong disposed, substantiallyupon the same plane.

2. In a device of the character described an integral structurecomprising a pointed,

portion of l inwardly and downwardly directed prong, of which areserrated, a member extending downwardly from said prong there being ahammer facet formed at the juncture of said member and said prong, the

the side walls strand forming the structure being bent out wardly fromthe lower portion of the downwardly extending member and then being benttoform a U-shaped member for the reception of the end of a shade roller,said strand being then bent out\\"ardly to form a horizontal arm andterminating in an upwardly extending prong.

In testimony whereof I have aflixcd my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

CHESTER J. MCDONALD. Witnesses:

ARTHUR STURGEs, GEORGE ENRIGHT.

